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The Trenches published a post yesterday containing various unedited excerpts from an illegally recorded phone call between Matt Edelstein, and a man still only known to us as “Randy” in the recording. In this post there are a couple of excerpts wherein Matt discusses a private investigator that was employed to research Randy.

Remember how Matt forgot he already said who shared the information! “Comedy gold” as a certain “private investigator” likes to say. You’ll see that phrase again in the embedded document at the end of this piece.

We now have our answer about this mystery investigator. It’s Neal Rauhauser.

In another email tip to The Trenches, we obtained the following correspondence from the socialactionsteering@googlegroups.com groups at Google Groups. Social Action Steering? Sounds very Marxy, you Stop Rush buffoons.

Interesting. I’m mentioned again. Matt sure spends a lot of time talking about someone he deems irrelevant. The bold comments in the email are my emphasis.

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Shoq value wrote:
Well here we go,

Randy has made another move (probably confirming that the leaked picture of“shoq” last night to Brooksbayne was the first move):

Julie just forwarded this to me. Now he’s reaching out to other progressives in our streams, trying to tarnish me and the stoprush effort by completing flipping reality, projecting everything we know about him onto me.

He probably chose laffy because he knows of our past differences and figured that was the best place to spread his toxic meme. What he doesn’t know is that Laffy already inquired with Krystal last week, and Krystal said “we don’t like or trust this guy,” or words to that effect.

Gottaff and I have had our issues in the past, but she’s a good progressive, and not a fool. She will probably see through this, based on what Krystal already forewarned her of (when Laffy wisely reached out to ask Krystal of clarification about Randy last week), and Julie explaining how we’ve already checked him out and virtually nothing he says is true.

Julie’s instinct was always that this guy was a right wing disrupter, and she may or may not have been right, but it’s clear he plans on trying to make trouble among progressives, and I assume Laffy and her friends would resist such nonsense, despite our personal dramas.

So now what?

You can be sure he’s trying to plant this meme anywhere he can. If I go public on the blog, it reveals that one of the noisier stop rush workers was a plant or a flake. But do we really care? I am not sure. It depends on how it’s constructed. Is it worse to give them a few days of noise, or let this asshat create all kinds of disruption? It’s a jump ball.

I feel that if we don’t expose him, he’s only going to try to do more and more of this subterfuge.

I am CCing Neal Rauhauser on this letter. He knows these right wing operatives (which Randy may or may not be) better than most of us, and he may have some insight into which approach is best. He’s probably just a flake trying to repair his soiled rep now, but I admit there are a lot of things that support Julie’s theory that he’s trying to disrupt all of us as a professional mission. We need to know more about that “law firm” he seems comfortable associating with. Do they have a relationship to Radio Host mikeberry? I am still fairly sure that if Randy had a stealth agenda, it was to use StopRush to fake-attack Berry, thus building his national ID and rep. Kinda clever, actually. And this letter to laffy shows he’s far more duplicitous (and craftier) than his folksy voice and manner would indicate.

I figure I may just have my lawyer send this Laffy letter back to him, and ask for an explanation.

Well, well, well, CCing Neal Rauhauser about Randy? Krystal Ball, the MSNBC contributor, is clearly involved in this leftist cabal according to this email. And we can see that Matt is bent on “exposing” Randy. Also, Matt thinks this will all just blow over in a couple days. Still clinging to that theory, Edelstein? Maybe you were correct about your infiltrator being “far more duplicitous (and craftier) than his folksy voice and manner would indicate”. Lesson? Don’t underestimate Blue Dog Democrats.

Is this your best James Bond, Mr. Private Investigator? FFS! My mind’s eye just went blind…

What in the name of all that is holy is going on in this picture, Rauhauser? And why did you ever think that posting this online publicly would be a good idea? If you were going for that James Bond look, you missed the mark, brony.

<shudder>

Anyway, as you’ll see below, to Edelstein and his extremist pals, “exposing” Randy means that Neal Rauhauser and his friends will “dox” someone named Jason that they believe is their infiltrator Randy Hahn. Here Neal responds to Matt’s inquiry, and Matt forwards it along with his response back to Neal and the Marxy “Social Action Steering” Google group.

Are you saying that you have found a Randy Hahn who runs that organization? Or were you being facetious? When will we know more from the lawyer? May we copy Laffy on this? Your call.

On 5/20/2012 1:58 PM, neal rauhauser wrote:

I heard of this guy maybe a week ago. Per my investigation:

Texas Coalition Against the Death Penalty has never heard of him.

Gulf Coast Planned Parenthood does not know him as a donor, nor has he been visible with any anti-abortion crazies.

DeGeurin & Dickison is not a big firm and they are indeed on the 7th floor of 1018 Preston in Houston. The 6th floor is another law firm and the office manager at D&D has been there twenty years, never heard of R.J. Taylor-Hahn, Randy Hahn, or any “The Press, LLC”.

Randy Hahn, Houston coordinator for Moderation Management (drunks who aren’t yet ready to recover), 42 years old, and apparently living in his mother’s basement(?)

Two bit grifter, ideological bent, snooping as best he can under his own name, unaware of the hideous things that will lunge out of the shadows at him.

D&D said they’d do a cease & desist letter to get him to stop mentioning their name and given the information he has collected on some of you a charge for identity theft might be just the thing – the firm does criminal work so they presumably know where to take this. I will check up on these things on Monday.

I have been sorely tempted to point him out to various actors – a guy like this, he could really produce some high quality entertainment for 4chan, Something Awful, Encyclopedia Dramatica, etc.

Ah, yes. Observe Neal’s telltale style of indenting emails. Remember who else does this? He would be none other than the “Gaped Crusader” sockpuppet also involved in this drama. I’ll bet ten thousand bucks that it’s Neal. More on Gaped Crusader’s sockpuppetry soon. Patterico, is it time to start the Gaped Crusader exposé? I think it is.

The first line of Neal’s email demonstrates that he’s admitted to conducting an investigation.

Neal, you little weasel! Why are you spying on Americans on behalf of Stop Rush, an extreme leftist political organization bent on silencing conservative speech, with ties to Media Matters for America? Wait… you’re a former eco-leftist? How did you move from huffing ammonia and hugging trees to leftist propaganda and overall asshattery? I see your little grubby fingerprints everywhere on Twittergate, Weinergate, Swattergate, Twittergulag, Anonymous/AnonyOps, Occupy, and StopRush, Mr. Rauhauser. All this goofy chicanery attacking Americans’ First Amendment rights. Can there be anything more un-American than assaulting others’ First Amendment freedoms?

True to form, Neal closes his email with threats. Some of these leftists like to try to destroy people’s reputations using basic oppo research that’s been leveraged against politicians for decades (AKA “doxing”). Wait a minute… didn’t that burn notice about Randy Hahn end up on Pastebin? Doh, and they already deleted it! Feeling the heat, perckerwoods? Guess what?! I still have the text from that Pastebin. I’ve embedded it below.

An example of Neal’s “hideous things that will lunge out of the shadows at” Randy? You decide. See how the first couple lines are indented – that peculiar telling habit again. Note how they admit that they’re anonymous in this statement: “Ask not for whom Anonymous trolls, Jason XXXX XXXXXX, Legion trolls for thee”

Neal, since we all know that you are behind this, why are you and/or your friends still such peckerwoods? And why, as leftists, are y’all so damned homophobic? The “faggot” comment about Ali Akbar is a bit much, don’t you think, tolerant left? Look in the mirror and say hi to your Gaped Crusader persona for me. He’s up next.

Hell, and we’re not even to Occupy Wall Street yet, Neal (and in small part, Matt). This is going to be a blast for the next couple weeks. Just make some popcorn, sit back, relax, and enjoy us exposing you. Your “friends” keep rolling over on you, as evidenced by my overflowing email inbox. As Oscar Wilde once said (you leftists read him right? I’m really trying to connect with you here.), ”A true friend stabs you in the front.“ Whoa… since The Trenches have engaged your deception via our full-frontal tactics, does this mean that we’re all friends now?! Mind blown. AMIRIGHT?!

By the way Neal, do you also consider Van Jones a close friend, or is that just Matt’s description of Van? I’m very curious about your answer to that question.

Howard Berkowitz according to NANOG: Netcases.net Author of four books so far, former Layer3Arts, Convergent, ANI, Nortel and some secret government work.

The following emails were posted to Paul Lemmen’s blog earlier. These are emails from Neal Rauhauser to Paul with some correspondence where Brett Kimberlin and Jeannie McBride were included. I’ve interacted with Paul several times on Twitter. He seems like a “no bullshit” kinda guy. Neal claims that Paul was picked for this correspondence due to Paul’s understandable withdrawal from the National Bloggers Club, and a connection to Howard Berkowitz from their time working together at Layer 3 Arts. Hell, none of us at The Trenches have ever been part of that echo chamber eunuchorn clique. However, I did donate a whopping $35 when they were calling for donations to help with legal bills for their case. Yes, hate me for being a tightwad. How much did you donate? Anyway… lawfare is expensive, AMIRIGHT?! I’d love to be a fly on the wall listening to Neal and Brett plotting the next move in their “strategy”.

There are some interesting aspects about these emails. One is that Neal reveals his utter disdain for one of The Trenches’ new writers, Patrick Read, and a few others, like Seth Allen, Aaron Walker, Robert Stacy McCain, Patrick Frey, David Matthew Stewart, ZAPEM, Mike Stack (the first guy SWATted in this whole nasty affair), Aaron Walker, Greg W. Howard, and Mandy Nagy. If this is all about a personal grudge, Mr. Asperger’s (yes, he admits it again in these emails – legal defense?), then you’re pretty damned tenacious.

My favorite line from the entire exchange: “I can think of no one more redeemed + active than brett. He’s basically the shadow 96th us atty’s office – hardcore anti-corruption ninja. Hook him up?” I can barely muster a straight face trying to unpack the silliness of that statement. Brett Kimberlin is a domestic terrorist who injured people with bombs, and he was suspected of killing a woman over his infatuation with a little girl, according to media, police, and court records AND WHO ALSO PLOTTED TO KILL WITNESSES AND A US ATTORNEY. But… Neal tries to frame Brett as a shadowy force for good in the 96th US Attorney’s Office. FMFFS!

Also, note in the emails that Neal is still indenting his paragraphs in emails, just like “Gaped Crusader”. This name will become relevant soon. Seriously, who indents their paragraphs in emails, other than Neal and Gaped, I mean?

There’s another interesting aspect to these emails that no one else has covered in any detail, regarding Howard Berkowitz (is that German?) and his connection to the intelligence community. He’s written several books on computer networks, and scores of Wikipedia articles and tidbits on everything from computer networking/security, cyberwar, counterintelligence, psyops, to cat herding (not kidding), pharmacology “especially Clonazepam, Gabapentin, Zolpidem and Triazolam” (interesting drugs of choice), and politics & “civil liberties”.

Here are Mr. Berkowitz’s thoughts on politics and civil liberties:

I consider myself a Recovering Republican, from the days when there was still a place for people that could deal with both civil liberties and a responsible social system (i.e., Frank Meyerfusionism )

There was no question I went through an Ayn Rand phase, but I was 18 at the time. I’d say that it was a sad day when I realized I’d never get a date with Dagny Taggart or Dominique Francon, but the reverse is vaguely true: I met my first wife at a Young Republican meeting, where I was the only person that knew what a libertarian was. So, she did get a date with Howard.

While I certainly oppose centrally planned economies, I believe the Tragedy of the commons will hit a totally unregulated market.

I am a strong supporter of one race: the human one. The United States is no longer a melting pot in which individual cultural contributions are homogenized, but my vision is one of a salad bowl, where cultural contributions are recognizable, harmonious, and contribute to a larger whole. Usually, I’m rather happy to be called politically incorrect.

While I do regret not getting the last three merit badges for Eagle Scout, and I did do some adult scouting as a merit badge counselor, I regretfully will not associate with the Boy Scouts of America as long as they continue spiritual and sexual discrimination.

How anti-American do you have to be to “not associate with the Boy Scouts of America”? Mr. Berkowitz is a former Randian and Republican. Now he pines for collectivism, Keynesianism, and for the Boy Scouts of America to have their little innocent bottoms spanked with the homosexual mafia’s agenda. That’s a helluva a life-change, Howard.

I must be clairvoyant, because Neal says in one of the emails to Paul a couple days prior, “I’m going to see if I can claim the $10,000 reward Kimberlins’ NGO is offering.” Neal, you’re right there in an email thread with Kimberlin chatting Paul up. How hard is it to respond to Brett and say, “The SWATter is _____” and collect your $10,000? You don’t think anyone is buying this nonsense do you, Neal?

The only place I agree with Neal (stop the world, right?), is where he speculates about Ali’s agenda for being involvement with the Tea Party as being an opportunistic one. I’ve called Ali out very publicly on Twitter for this very thing. Even a broken clock… eh, Neal?

I’ve included blog post from Paul’s site in full. If you’ve already read his post there’s nothing new to see below save for the last paragraph. Paul sets up the exchange:

To put the emails I received — and answered — in context, I am posting the entire exchange.

This exchange began, apparently, in response to a post I made last week about withdrawing support for the National Bloggers Club because of unanswered questions and doubts about the club and it’s founder Ali Akbar. This was engendered by revelations about his past criminal activities and what I consider valid questions that need to be answered.

Apparently Neal felt that by writing that post, I was somehow defecting from the conservative cause. I have not. To the emails:

(Nota Bene: I have redacted Neal’s email address and telephone number from these emails out of courtesy to him. Every thing else is as written and received via my email address.)

I doubt you recall my name, but I didn’t have to Google you to know the back story about First Kuwaiti Catering & Logistics – Howard Berkowitz and I were there. As I recall we were on a couple of conference bridges together in 2005, talking about microwave stuff for a school in the relatively safe area of Kurdistan.

What you see about Ali is the tip of the iceberg. Robert Stacy McCain and his crew have been harassing me since 2010, and this has included two different instances where armed individuals have turned up looking for me, countless calls to my consulting customers, and a raft of other hate group tactics. I’ve had to move twice AND change careers because of this creature. He is homeless now, not because of threats from Brett, but because the Seventh Day Adventist church was presented information about him living on their compound in Hagerstown, MD. They saw the Southern Poverty Law Center listing, him talking about guns and other crazy stuff, and they said “David Koresh 2.0 – get out, get out NOW!”

You list Patterico on your blog roll. He has been investigated twice for harassment, but slipped both times. He did NOT slip a civil suit from Nadia Naffe, a former employee of James O’Keefe. I set up the lawyer for her after Pat Frey posted her medical records and social security number online. No question it was him – he used his wife’s account and did it during work hours from the offices of the Los Angeles County District Attorney. See the attached documents about Frey & Naffe for proof such things are happening.

Frey did that because James O’Keefe is facing a state grand jury in New Hampshire. I know this because I talked to the Associate AG in charge of it, and then I hand carried a letter from him into an injunction hearing in New Jersey. Nadia wouldn’t release what she has on O’Keefe without paperwork, the AG was in trial and only had 48 hours to respond, while an out of state subpoena takes a week, so I carried the water for them. I’ve attached a copy of that letter for your reading enjoyment.

Aaron Walker’s arrest isn’t a First Amendment problem – the guy clearly presents as having delusions of persecution. He was running the Everyone Draw Mohammed blogspot, harassing Brett Kimberlin (a theme here, eh?), and someone finally dropped a dime on him. Seems that his crude stick figure cartoons of the prophet Mohammed screwing goats was an excellent suicide bomber recruiting tool for the Taliban. I am told that a cache of this stuff was part of the take from bin Laden’s compound, but under oath I will fail to recall who told me that, or when, or any other details about it. The court room audio where he was arrested is in my possession and I am happy to share it with you. Walker did assault Kimberlin, he admitted this in court during a peace order hearing, and he told the judge he thought the iPad Brett was holding was a bomb(!)

Shit gets deeper for Aaron and Ali, I think later today. The law firm that jumped into defend … one of the principals has a small problem with drugs and alcohol – specifically the part about enticing underage boys from the street to have sex with him in exchange for aforementioned substances. No nasty rumor, this, we’ve got the video the kids made in his car during the discussion, then they filmed his registration and a bank statement while he was in buying booze.

So O’Keefe has a state grand jury in New Hampshire, then doubles down by having one of his guys pose as Attorney General Eric Holder, attempting to vote using his name here in D.C. Last week I sat for an hour with two Metropolitain Police detectives. They were local, we had some stuff on Chicago, they said “Let us forward this.” When I asked they said “We’re a little bit federal, too.” So they’re deputized U.S. Marshals and I think this is probably a general election related task force – they were in my place last summer, when I was still in Illinois, collecting my notes on hate groups that involve themselves in elections.

Instigated publicly by Lee Stranahan, at the urging of Frey and Walker, and then executed by Ali Akbar & Co., what you are seeing here is a straight up attempt to silence Nadia Naffe, Brett Kimberlin, and I. They’re doing it not so much to protect O’Keefe, who is a compulsive fuckup, but to protect the money men behind his shenanigans.

85 House offices signed a “find the swatter” letter. They’re going to use that to smear me, because I used to be a telecom engineer, because I’m an old hacker, and because I’ve baited them endlessly over stuff like what I’ve just shared with you. In addition to the real swatting of Mike Stack in New Jersey, and the faked swattings of Pat Frey and Erick Erickson, there were two others – an attempt on me in 2010, and one on Brett last week. I don’t think it’s ideological – I have a small set of likely suspects, a group I’ve been watching since 2010, and I’m going to see if I can claim the $10,000 reward Kimberlins’ NGO is offering.

So … you’re into rigorous honesty, feel free to grab a verifiable piece of this mess and explain to the masses how they got dragged into a conspiracy to obstruct justice. I copied Brett on this, we’ll provide you whatever documents or explanations we can, so long as it won’t screw up the investigation in process.

Neal

p.s. Consider any amends needed for my time lost in 2005 done just on your post about stepping back from National Bloggers. Write honestly and directly about the rest of this mess and you’ll undo a whole bunch of additional negative karma.

I have removed the attached pdfs as my hosting provider will not allow them to post properly. On to my response:

I do recall you Neal. I will take my time to digest all you have sent me before I decide what to do. I am being as judicious as possible in the interest of honesty and complete openness as you can tell by my blog and specifically my post about Ali Akbar, flying in the face of agenda and political considerations. I guess that as a constitutional conservative many of those on the right do not see eye-to-eye with me or my core beliefs.Paul

Just got back from my daily duties on Capitol Hill and I wanted to give you a little more background.

First, the following people write about things and they tend to produce good background information, even though both are ideologically biased.

Lane Lipton – http://qritiq.wordpress.com – she has been tracking the Weinergate saga and probably has a better grasp than most. She is assisted by @ronbyrn, who is as crazy as a bed bug, but he was a damned good researcher before he became unwell in 2010, so he digs and digs, then rants and rants, then people help him sort out truth from fiction. Also in the mix is Mike Stack, @CryingWolfeBlog, the only real swatting victim so far – he got done 6/23/2011, and it was due to his involvement in Weinergate, not due to anything Brett did – he’d never heard of him until about three months ago when Aaron Walker prompted him to blog about him. There was one post, since taken down.

Breitbart Unmasked – http://breitbartunmasked.com – dunno who this is, guy frankly scares the crap out of me – seems like former military intel, diplomatic corps, or some such. We’ve had back channel discussions, he’s been to the sandbox, he’s “seen the elephant”, so to speak.

The bad actors in this, by my book, include:

Seth Allen, <redacted>, MA. Psych disability, constant internet troll, sued by Brett after two years of smearing him, he finally turned up for a damages hearing on September 14th of last year, and got arrested for disorderly conduct. You can Google Maryland Court cases, this all happened in Rockville, which is in Montgomery County. It’s Seth L. Allen, search for cases between about 9/1/2011 and today to see the whole story.

Someone was funding Seth and it was either John Patrick Frey, or Aaron Walker. We know this via an admission in a court filing – he couldn’t come to a hearing because his ‘friend’ would not send him $200 to make the trip. Walker showed up at a contempt hearing January 9th in Rockville. He is a Virginia lawyer, but tried to insert himself into the proceedings. The judge ejected him, he waited outside the court room, and then assaulted Brett, acting on the mistaken belief that Brett’s iPad was a bomb. This we know via admissions he made during a later peace order hearing. LIke Allen, this man has mental difficulties – he has admitted to some perceptual problems that required special allowances during law school – private exam rooms, and in court he is simply unable to contain himself, which offends the judge Every! Single! Time! He’s Aaron Justin Walker, again with the court search, and limit dates from 1/1/2012 through today.

I think Frey is the center of this crap – he has been investigated twice for stalking/harassment (Brett, both times), he is now being sued by Nadia Naffe for dumping her documents. If you look at the history he has taken advantage of Seth Allen (psych disability), Ron Brynaert (psych disability), Aaron Walker (will be on psych disability, he’s done as a lawyer IMHO), and I suspect he has his fingers in what “Michelle Lessick” aka @ZAPEM does(probable psych disability, always online, always spouting conspiracy theories). No court cases for him in Maryland (yet) and I sent you the relevant pieces on him in earlier PDFs.

Weinergate is a puzzle, but here is my studied opinion on the matter. Mike Grimm, former FBI undercover, now Congressman for NY-13 attempted to extort a Jewish congregation on Staten Island. The rabbi went to Weiner, he reported it, and that got the investigation rolling. A couple of weeks later a crew started following Weiner online, presenting porn stars, hookers, fake underage teens, trying to get him sexting. They fabricated some teens, leaked it, and we almost broke it up before he was forced to resign. Weiner finally came out about the stuff with Grimm in May – he waited until the primary was done, then saddled the GOP with a guy that may get indicted.

Frey dropped Naffe’s dox in order to intimidate/guide people in how to attack her. This was done to protect James O’Keefe – Frey has been his most vocal defender, and I think they used to work together. So that’s an obstruction of justice attempt in New Hampshire, and it probably just overflowed into federal stuff due to one of O’Keefe’s crew posing as Attorney General Eric Holder and attempting to vote using his name.

Also on my bad actors list, but lacking specific court docs here to back it up, are:

Mandy Nagy aka @Liberty_Chick. Mouthy pain in the ass, Seth’s original arrest was triggered in part by her reporting a death threat he made to Brett to the Montgomery County police (check me, Brett – was it there, or South Easton, where he lives?)

Douglas Matthew Stewart aka @dmatthewstewart. He is a stupid little con man, only plausible to grade schoolers, and he does astonishingly stupid stuff. He was involved in a computer intrusion at nextstreet.com, dumping private information. I interviewed the victim and they declined to pursue it. He’s done this several times since, but I never get a good solid read so I can set the feds on him. He’s such a shit he’s not a high priority – I figure he’s gonna hang himself pretty quickly the way he plays.

I will provide what court room audio and documents I have if you need more than the web site provides. I should mention that I faced harassment charges from Mike Stack in New Jersey. He was steered to attack me – he’s another person on psych disability that Frey picked out and victimized. I prepared counter charges, but thought better of it, and it was all dismissed via mediation several weeks ago. He seems a nice enough guy in person, but he is very easily led, and he ends up on point for stuff no competent adult would involve themselves in …

I am going to also send an introductory email for you and Jeannie McBride – she’s @JeannieMcBride on Twitter, and she’s been through the wringer with “Michelle Lessick”, @SwiftRead, @GregWHoward, etc. Her daughter was snatched off the street and violently raped literally the same week that she had a falling out with that group, and they spent six months broadcasting personal information about her and her daughter, telling her that they were going to help the rapist find her so he could do both of them. She and I are polar opposites on policy, but we talk on the phone about kids and our sore backs and these crazy people who bother us – she’s good people, and I think right near Nashville.

It’s an enormous wad of crap to digest, and it would be amazingly good if you’d help sort out fact from fiction on this stuff …

Paul Lemmen is a former bad guy who is now a reformed ass kicker – I knew him “back in the day”, and I’m amazed to see him not only alive, but stepping up and starting to debunk this crap Michelle is putting out about me. I told him a little bit about what happened to your and your daughter, and I bet he is going to check my story given how hot this one is, so y’all should talk. He’s in TN, too …

Small correction, I’m in Florida now … I’m intrigued and my curiosity has been piqued. Please, give me a data dump so I can tie things together.

from:

neal rauhauser redacted

to:

lemmen

date:

Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:08 PM

subject:

Re: Jeannie McBride / Paul Lemmen intro

mailed-by:

gmail.com

Got you a start with the previous post – the one with names, you can look for yourself on their court cases here in Maryland – just Google “Maryland court cases”, it’s all in Montgomery County. Seth L. Allen, Aaron Justin Walker, everything starts mid September of last year. Attaching the docs about Frey and O’Keefe again.

More on Brett – locked up for bombing, freed early, received a massive false imprisonment settlement, details are sealed. The only evidence it was him was collected under hypnosis – not a valid source of evidence. They wanted it off the books and quickly, he was a convenient target.

He faced a wrongful death suit from the family of Julia Scyphers. He was never a serious suspect in her murder, but they saw him as a payday because he was locked up, and he’d been handling some pretty large volumes of drugs. The judge, Michael T. Dugan, tried to shake him down for $10k in exchange for a favorable ruling. Kimberlin filed a complaint, and pretty soon the judge faces an eighteen year sentence for racketeering.

Got them. As you said, like trying to eat an elephant at one sitting. You know I read fast and am a quick study from the Kuwait debacle (I got screwed worse than poor Howard). Let me begin wading in the cesspool …

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jeanniemcbride@redacted

to:

lemmen

date:

Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:40 AM

subject:

Re: Jeannie McBride / Paul Lemmen intro

mailed-by:

redacted

Neal and I have common enemies. I’m conservative, he is a Dem. however we don’t discuss politics. If you know what happened to Neal, then my story is similar, as far as my family being threatened. The story was long and tedious. Going back 2 years now. However SwiftRead and his cronies still will not give up.

I will try and give you a link if you don’t have it already to SwiftRead’s blogspot. It changes with his mood, and he even changes OLD blogs to reflect his viewpoint of the week.

Right now he is desperately trying to find a link from Rauhauser to Brett Kimberlin. I think I spelled that right. At this juncture if they spelled Swift’s name correctly he would try and link the Pope to anyone controversial. Swift’s want of power and fame knows no bounds.

Thanks for responding. The data overload is huge so I may be several days in responding. I’m old fashioned and in unraveling spaghetti, I graph-out on paper all the interconnections in order to visualize the data and understand it. Neal knows all about that method as regards large data warehouses and this, by needs, must be considered thus.

Howard landed soft after Iraq stuff. He is really not well – one of my friends and I moved him to St. Louis, where he had a nice finished basement space with a long time friend. He has some perceptual/judgment trouble – not showering unless brow beat into it, not eating right despite diabetes, and he’d go off into a fugue state of some sort at random intervals. I really thought he didn’t have long to live, but he still seems to be puttering along – I think I saw something from him last year on LinkedIn. This has apparently been the case for many years – his fellow author friends knew and are either worn out from caring for him, or they just understand that is the way he is and there is nothing to be done about it.

I would have been able to get him paid if he had just signed the damned contract and faxed it back. He went off into some convoluted reasoning about his soul being in his signature and never did sign the contract. I got as many extensions on his mortgage as I could but his frantic demand for $30K in cash within 24 hours to save his house was the last straw for me. I answered him that if he would just sign the contract he could have 100K the next day, Swift transfer into his bank or even into his mortgage account and the remainder to him, but he still wouldn’t budge. Some form I Asperger’s Syndrome I think …

from:

neal rauhauser redacted

to:

lemmen

date:

Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:37 PM

subject:

Re: Howard Berkowitz

mailed-by:

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I’m mildly AS, he is most certainly not. The house was a loss no matter what happened – he was ready for assisted living, as he had no adult children or relatives who could care for him. I had a friend who was instrumental in me cleaning up my life back when I was in my mid twenties. He had a stroke at fifty, when I was in my mid thirties, and it was damned sad. He wanted nothing more than to finish putting his 1982 shovelhead back together, but he’ll never move without a walker again, and his judgment was just way, way off after that.

Howard wore me out, too – fantastic rolodex, but he’d go off into the stratosphere on even a little job. I got two solid years of good work out of the intros he made, and I think we left him in as good a place as we could by getting him to St. Louis. For this one if you’re feeling the need I think I would hunt him up, apologize, ask what he’s been up to – prompt him to find out if he’s got the professional LinkedIn, and if not it’s like $120 for six months – that’s his favorite place to play and if he can’t roll a funded account it would be a major life upgrade if someone provided that for him.

I’ll see what I can do. $120 is a big chunk for me, that’s 10% of my disability check. Bad heart (5 stents during my federal stay) another in February and drifting from CKD stage 4 into end-stage-renal-disease. No one in their right mind would hire me. Not that I could perform the work either.

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Oh, shit. Well apology it is then. I feel ya on the kidney stuff – mine are polycystic, been causing trouble since 2000 or so, and I got Lyme in 2007, so I’m basically consultant or not working at all – I have lots of fatigue issues – will have a good month or even two, then a week straight of afternoon naps if I eat the wrong thing even one day.

Same same here. afternoon naps, fall asleep after every meal, can’t walk without a cane and even then, a hundred feet saps my strength.

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Everyone’s life is the same length – beginning, end, and the middle stretches from point A to point B. It’s how you use it that matters. You’ve done some crazy, epic shit over the years, like Catch Me If You Can in real life. Now you’re on final approach, and you’re cleaning house hardcore, like few I’ve ever seen since I went through my big change about twenty years ago. Humbles me, it does, to see someone testing the line between rigorous honesty and brutal honest, which is your last epic move

You want a final bit of service work, take the time to read through that crap I sent you, and call bullshit where you see bullshit. I swear these guys are trying to drag us into a civil war, and the whole thing is such a muddle now the real journalists are afraid to touch it. I got more to show you, gotta dig out files and stuff … you had Iraq, I got this stuff, it’s been one hairy escape after the next for the last two years, and I really hope this is the beginning of the end. I am so tired of it – had to change careers, move twice, lost two good women over this crap. Fixing to break into my serenity a bit, this thing, and I hope they find someone else to obsess over.

Perhaps my call for him to step down regarding dishonesty is having an effect?

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This whole business with him kinda creeps me out – dark skinned, Arab sounding name, gay … and conservative? I got a bad feeling like this guy is gonna get made as 100% grifter who saw the Tea Party as an easy target, and they’ll turn on him in a terrible fashion. Seems like he might have got religion while he was locked up – not the same as getting spiritual and cleaning house, eh?

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Exactly. Those that “get religion” are 99% users and abusers. I on the other hand, didn’t reconcile with the Catholic Church until earlier this year … after 18 months of talks with my local Bishop and compliance with a very large package of requirements. A quickie “conversion” to a not heirarchical, open to everybody suspect church group raises many red flags when done in custody by a convicted felon hiding their past …

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Did you do the Ignatian Disciplines stuff? I had a friend/mentor who did that when he was in his 70s … I took a very different path – converted to Buddhism about a decade ago.

Strictly a Franciscan mindset, individual salvation, individual responsibility for the poor, widowed, orphaned, all the less fortunate. To quote St. Francis, “Lord make me an instrument of your peace …”

Thus, a drive to expose TRUTH as the antidote to the lies and deception of modern political life that tears down our society and individual freedoms and liberty. Without truth, blunt, honest truth, there can be no ability to live sabctified and moral lives.

I spent a majority of yesterday graphing out the spaghetti mess! I have gone through almost an entire pack of graph paper to be able to untangle all the competing claims, situations and players. WHEW!

There are still some holes and I’m sure you have more to send me … I’m ready for another data dump.

This is going to make my longest post ever, lots of graphics showing relationships to make it easier to understand the timeline and relationships. I’ll even send you some sections prior to publication for your comments …

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Have you talked to qritiq yet? She’d be one of the best sources for Weiner events – she seems to despise all parties involved equally.

I haven’t gone to Lane Lipton’s site yet nor to Breitbart Unmasked to do any additional digging as yet. Those are on my to do list but I wanted to check in with you first to see if you had more data to dump before I started digging at affiliated sites. This will probably end up being a severe blockbuster to those twisting the narrative for political or financial (or both) gain.

Remember, I am a rank novice at this political stuff, only really getting into it this January. Much of the events occurred either prior to my release from prison on 4Jan2010 or in the immediate aftermath when I was struggling with my health and fighting Social Security for my disability while living on zero income and still being required to make restitution payments that exceeded my income.

Any and all data you can provide or hook me up privately via email with the individuals involved, the better foe my understanding and my ability to expose the lies.

FYI, I’ve been contacted by The Today Show special investigations producer Sandra Thomas about redemption and involvement in political speech. That would be a very powerful medium to be able to expose this …

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I can think of no one more redeemed + active than brett. He’s basically the shadow 96th us atty’s office – hardcore anti-corruption ninja. Hook him up?

I guess I hit a very sensitive spot. Ali has commented four times on my facebook account trying to get me to retract my post and trying to convince me how honest and kind he is. Methinks he doth protesteth too much!

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This guy needs to get honest with himself or he’s gonna come to with a bloody nose and a hangover after he falls out of the top bunk in a county jail cell.

Here ended the email exchange. I have not received any emails from Neal since. I have included my responses in order to provide context and accuracy as well as in the interest of brutal honesty. They show that I was being disingenuous with Neal in an attempt to draw him out and to reveal more of the inner working of his mind as well as to elicit connections to other players on the opposition.

More attempts at disinformation, some insight into psyops and cyberwar vis-à-vis his former co-worker and friend Mr. Berkowitz, and an airing of his personal beefs in this “dramedy” of errors. I sent Neal an email requesting an interview. Still haven’t heard back. Anytime, Neal. Door’s open. However, the window of opportunity is closing quickly. I think you know this.

Howard Berkowitz according to NANOG: Netcases.net Author of four books so far, former Layer3Arts, Convergent, ANI, Nortel and some secret government work.

The following emails were posted to Paul Lemmen’s blog earlier. These are emails from Neal Rauhauser to Paul with some correspondence where Brett Kimberlin and Jeannie McBride were included. I’ve interacted with Paul several times on Twitter. He seems like a “no bullshit” kinda guy. Neal claims that Paul was picked for this correspondence due to Paul’s understandable withdrawal from the National Bloggers Club, and a connection to Howard Berkowitz from their time working together at Layer 3 Arts. Hell, none of us at The Trenches have ever been part of that echo chamber eunuchorn clique. However, I did donate a whopping $35 when they were calling for donations to help with legal bills for their case. Yes, hate me for being a tightwad. How much did you donate? Anyway… lawfare is expensive, AMIRIGHT?! I’d love to be a fly on the wall listening to Neal and Brett plotting the next move in their “strategy”.

There are some interesting aspects about these emails. One is that Neal reveals his utter disdain for one of The Trenches’ new writers, Patrick Read, and a few others, like Seth Allen, Aaron Walker, Robert Stacy McCain, Patrick Frey, David Matthew Stewart, ZAPEM, Mike Stack (the first guy SWATted in this whole nasty affair), Aaron Walker, Greg W. Howard, and Mandy Nagy. If this is all about a personal grudge, Mr. Asperger’s (yes, he admits it again in these emails – legal defense?), then you’re pretty damned tenacious.

My favorite line from the entire exchange: “I can think of no one more redeemed + active than brett. He’s basically the shadow 96th us atty’s office – hardcore anti-corruption ninja. Hook him up?” I can barely muster a straight face trying to unpack the silliness of that statement. Brett Kimberlin is a domestic terrorist who injured people with bombs, and he was suspected of killing a woman over his infatuation with a little girl, according to media, police, and court records AND WHO ALSO PLOTTED TO KILL WITNESSES AND A US ATTORNEY. But… Neal tries to frame Brett as a shadowy force for good in the 96th US Attorney’s Office. FMFFS!

Also, note in the emails that Neal is still indenting his paragraphs in emails, just like “Gaped Crusader”. This name will become relevant soon. Seriously, who indents their paragraphs in emails, other than Neal and Gaped, I mean?

There’s another interesting aspect to these emails that no one else has covered in any detail, regarding Howard Berkowitz (is that German?) and his connection to the intelligence community. He’s written several books on computer networks, and scores of Wikipedia articles and tidbits on everything from computer networking/security, cyberwar, counterintelligence, psyops, to cat herding (not kidding), pharmacology “especially Clonazepam, Gabapentin, Zolpidem and Triazolam” (interesting drugs of choice), and politics & “civil liberties”.

Here are Mr. Berkowitz’s thoughts on politics and civil liberties:

I consider myself a Recovering Republican, from the days when there was still a place for people that could deal with both civil liberties and a responsible social system (i.e., Frank Meyerfusionism )

There was no question I went through an Ayn Rand phase, but I was 18 at the time. I’d say that it was a sad day when I realized I’d never get a date with Dagny Taggart or Dominique Francon, but the reverse is vaguely true: I met my first wife at a Young Republican meeting, where I was the only person that knew what a libertarian was. So, she did get a date with Howard.

While I certainly oppose centrally planned economies, I believe the Tragedy of the commons will hit a totally unregulated market.

I am a strong supporter of one race: the human one. The United States is no longer a melting pot in which individual cultural contributions are homogenized, but my vision is one of a salad bowl, where cultural contributions are recognizable, harmonious, and contribute to a larger whole. Usually, I’m rather happy to be called politically incorrect.

While I do regret not getting the last three merit badges for Eagle Scout, and I did do some adult scouting as a merit badge counselor, I regretfully will not associate with the Boy Scouts of America as long as they continue spiritual and sexual discrimination.

How anti-American do you have to be to “not associate with the Boy Scouts of America”? Mr. Berkowitz is a former Randian and Republican. Now he pines for collectivism, Keynesianism, and for the Boy Scouts of America to have their little innocent bottoms spanked with the homosexual mafia’s agenda. That’s a helluva a life-change, Howard.

I must be clairvoyant, because Neal says in one of the emails to Paul a couple days prior, “I’m going to see if I can claim the $10,000 reward Kimberlins’ NGO is offering.” Neal, you’re right there in an email thread with Kimberlin chatting Paul up. How hard is it to respond to Brett and say, “The SWATter is _____” and collect your $10,000? You don’t think anyone is buying this nonsense do you, Neal?

The only place I agree with Neal (stop the world, right?), is where he speculates about Ali’s agenda for being involvement with the Tea Party as being an opportunistic one. I’ve called Ali out very publicly on Twitter for this very thing. Even a broken clock… eh, Neal?

I’ve included blog post from Paul’s site in full. If you’ve already read his post there’s nothing new to see below save for the last paragraph. Paul sets up the exchange:

To put the emails I received — and answered — in context, I am posting the entire exchange.

This exchange began, apparently, in response to a post I made last week about withdrawing support for the National Bloggers Club because of unanswered questions and doubts about the club and it’s founder Ali Akbar. This was engendered by revelations about his past criminal activities and what I consider valid questions that need to be answered.

Apparently Neal felt that by writing that post, I was somehow defecting from the conservative cause. I have not. To the emails:

(Nota Bene: I have redacted Neal’s email address and telephone number from these emails out of courtesy to him. Every thing else is as written and received via my email address.)

I doubt you recall my name, but I didn’t have to Google you to know the back story about First Kuwaiti Catering & Logistics – Howard Berkowitz and I were there. As I recall we were on a couple of conference bridges together in 2005, talking about microwave stuff for a school in the relatively safe area of Kurdistan.

What you see about Ali is the tip of the iceberg. Robert Stacy McCain and his crew have been harassing me since 2010, and this has included two different instances where armed individuals have turned up looking for me, countless calls to my consulting customers, and a raft of other hate group tactics. I’ve had to move twice AND change careers because of this creature. He is homeless now, not because of threats from Brett, but because the Seventh Day Adventist church was presented information about him living on their compound in Hagerstown, MD. They saw the Southern Poverty Law Center listing, him talking about guns and other crazy stuff, and they said “David Koresh 2.0 – get out, get out NOW!”

You list Patterico on your blog roll. He has been investigated twice for harassment, but slipped both times. He did NOT slip a civil suit from Nadia Naffe, a former employee of James O’Keefe. I set up the lawyer for her after Pat Frey posted her medical records and social security number online. No question it was him – he used his wife’s account and did it during work hours from the offices of the Los Angeles County District Attorney. See the attached documents about Frey & Naffe for proof such things are happening.

Frey did that because James O’Keefe is facing a state grand jury in New Hampshire. I know this because I talked to the Associate AG in charge of it, and then I hand carried a letter from him into an injunction hearing in New Jersey. Nadia wouldn’t release what she has on O’Keefe without paperwork, the AG was in trial and only had 48 hours to respond, while an out of state subpoena takes a week, so I carried the water for them. I’ve attached a copy of that letter for your reading enjoyment.

Aaron Walker’s arrest isn’t a First Amendment problem – the guy clearly presents as having delusions of persecution. He was running the Everyone Draw Mohammed blogspot, harassing Brett Kimberlin (a theme here, eh?), and someone finally dropped a dime on him. Seems that his crude stick figure cartoons of the prophet Mohammed screwing goats was an excellent suicide bomber recruiting tool for the Taliban. I am told that a cache of this stuff was part of the take from bin Laden’s compound, but under oath I will fail to recall who told me that, or when, or any other details about it. The court room audio where he was arrested is in my possession and I am happy to share it with you. Walker did assault Kimberlin, he admitted this in court during a peace order hearing, and he told the judge he thought the iPad Brett was holding was a bomb(!)

Shit gets deeper for Aaron and Ali, I think later today. The law firm that jumped into defend … one of the principals has a small problem with drugs and alcohol – specifically the part about enticing underage boys from the street to have sex with him in exchange for aforementioned substances. No nasty rumor, this, we’ve got the video the kids made in his car during the discussion, then they filmed his registration and a bank statement while he was in buying booze.

So O’Keefe has a state grand jury in New Hampshire, then doubles down by having one of his guys pose as Attorney General Eric Holder, attempting to vote using his name here in D.C. Last week I sat for an hour with two Metropolitain Police detectives. They were local, we had some stuff on Chicago, they said “Let us forward this.” When I asked they said “We’re a little bit federal, too.” So they’re deputized U.S. Marshals and I think this is probably a general election related task force – they were in my place last summer, when I was still in Illinois, collecting my notes on hate groups that involve themselves in elections.

Instigated publicly by Lee Stranahan, at the urging of Frey and Walker, and then executed by Ali Akbar & Co., what you are seeing here is a straight up attempt to silence Nadia Naffe, Brett Kimberlin, and I. They’re doing it not so much to protect O’Keefe, who is a compulsive fuckup, but to protect the money men behind his shenanigans.

85 House offices signed a “find the swatter” letter. They’re going to use that to smear me, because I used to be a telecom engineer, because I’m an old hacker, and because I’ve baited them endlessly over stuff like what I’ve just shared with you. In addition to the real swatting of Mike Stack in New Jersey, and the faked swattings of Pat Frey and Erick Erickson, there were two others – an attempt on me in 2010, and one on Brett last week. I don’t think it’s ideological – I have a small set of likely suspects, a group I’ve been watching since 2010, and I’m going to see if I can claim the $10,000 reward Kimberlins’ NGO is offering.

So … you’re into rigorous honesty, feel free to grab a verifiable piece of this mess and explain to the masses how they got dragged into a conspiracy to obstruct justice. I copied Brett on this, we’ll provide you whatever documents or explanations we can, so long as it won’t screw up the investigation in process.

Neal

p.s. Consider any amends needed for my time lost in 2005 done just on your post about stepping back from National Bloggers. Write honestly and directly about the rest of this mess and you’ll undo a whole bunch of additional negative karma.

I have removed the attached pdfs as my hosting provider will not allow them to post properly. On to my response:

I do recall you Neal. I will take my time to digest all you have sent me before I decide what to do. I am being as judicious as possible in the interest of honesty and complete openness as you can tell by my blog and specifically my post about Ali Akbar, flying in the face of agenda and political considerations. I guess that as a constitutional conservative many of those on the right do not see eye-to-eye with me or my core beliefs.Paul

Just got back from my daily duties on Capitol Hill and I wanted to give you a little more background.

First, the following people write about things and they tend to produce good background information, even though both are ideologically biased.

Lane Lipton – http://qritiq.wordpress.com – she has been tracking the Weinergate saga and probably has a better grasp than most. She is assisted by @ronbyrn, who is as crazy as a bed bug, but he was a damned good researcher before he became unwell in 2010, so he digs and digs, then rants and rants, then people help him sort out truth from fiction. Also in the mix is Mike Stack, @CryingWolfeBlog, the only real swatting victim so far – he got done 6/23/2011, and it was due to his involvement in Weinergate, not due to anything Brett did – he’d never heard of him until about three months ago when Aaron Walker prompted him to blog about him. There was one post, since taken down.

Breitbart Unmasked – http://breitbartunmasked.com – dunno who this is, guy frankly scares the crap out of me – seems like former military intel, diplomatic corps, or some such. We’ve had back channel discussions, he’s been to the sandbox, he’s “seen the elephant”, so to speak.

The bad actors in this, by my book, include:

Seth Allen, <redacted>, MA. Psych disability, constant internet troll, sued by Brett after two years of smearing him, he finally turned up for a damages hearing on September 14th of last year, and got arrested for disorderly conduct. You can Google Maryland Court cases, this all happened in Rockville, which is in Montgomery County. It’s Seth L. Allen, search for cases between about 9/1/2011 and today to see the whole story.

Someone was funding Seth and it was either John Patrick Frey, or Aaron Walker. We know this via an admission in a court filing – he couldn’t come to a hearing because his ‘friend’ would not send him $200 to make the trip. Walker showed up at a contempt hearing January 9th in Rockville. He is a Virginia lawyer, but tried to insert himself into the proceedings. The judge ejected him, he waited outside the court room, and then assaulted Brett, acting on the mistaken belief that Brett’s iPad was a bomb. This we know via admissions he made during a later peace order hearing. LIke Allen, this man has mental difficulties – he has admitted to some perceptual problems that required special allowances during law school – private exam rooms, and in court he is simply unable to contain himself, which offends the judge Every! Single! Time! He’s Aaron Justin Walker, again with the court search, and limit dates from 1/1/2012 through today.

I think Frey is the center of this crap – he has been investigated twice for stalking/harassment (Brett, both times), he is now being sued by Nadia Naffe for dumping her documents. If you look at the history he has taken advantage of Seth Allen (psych disability), Ron Brynaert (psych disability), Aaron Walker (will be on psych disability, he’s done as a lawyer IMHO), and I suspect he has his fingers in what “Michelle Lessick” aka @ZAPEM does(probable psych disability, always online, always spouting conspiracy theories). No court cases for him in Maryland (yet) and I sent you the relevant pieces on him in earlier PDFs.

Weinergate is a puzzle, but here is my studied opinion on the matter. Mike Grimm, former FBI undercover, now Congressman for NY-13 attempted to extort a Jewish congregation on Staten Island. The rabbi went to Weiner, he reported it, and that got the investigation rolling. A couple of weeks later a crew started following Weiner online, presenting porn stars, hookers, fake underage teens, trying to get him sexting. They fabricated some teens, leaked it, and we almost broke it up before he was forced to resign. Weiner finally came out about the stuff with Grimm in May – he waited until the primary was done, then saddled the GOP with a guy that may get indicted.

Frey dropped Naffe’s dox in order to intimidate/guide people in how to attack her. This was done to protect James O’Keefe – Frey has been his most vocal defender, and I think they used to work together. So that’s an obstruction of justice attempt in New Hampshire, and it probably just overflowed into federal stuff due to one of O’Keefe’s crew posing as Attorney General Eric Holder and attempting to vote using his name.

Also on my bad actors list, but lacking specific court docs here to back it up, are:

Mandy Nagy aka @Liberty_Chick. Mouthy pain in the ass, Seth’s original arrest was triggered in part by her reporting a death threat he made to Brett to the Montgomery County police (check me, Brett – was it there, or South Easton, where he lives?)

Douglas Matthew Stewart aka @dmatthewstewart. He is a stupid little con man, only plausible to grade schoolers, and he does astonishingly stupid stuff. He was involved in a computer intrusion at nextstreet.com, dumping private information. I interviewed the victim and they declined to pursue it. He’s done this several times since, but I never get a good solid read so I can set the feds on him. He’s such a shit he’s not a high priority – I figure he’s gonna hang himself pretty quickly the way he plays.

I will provide what court room audio and documents I have if you need more than the web site provides. I should mention that I faced harassment charges from Mike Stack in New Jersey. He was steered to attack me – he’s another person on psych disability that Frey picked out and victimized. I prepared counter charges, but thought better of it, and it was all dismissed via mediation several weeks ago. He seems a nice enough guy in person, but he is very easily led, and he ends up on point for stuff no competent adult would involve themselves in …

I am going to also send an introductory email for you and Jeannie McBride – she’s @JeannieMcBride on Twitter, and she’s been through the wringer with “Michelle Lessick”, @SwiftRead, @GregWHoward, etc. Her daughter was snatched off the street and violently raped literally the same week that she had a falling out with that group, and they spent six months broadcasting personal information about her and her daughter, telling her that they were going to help the rapist find her so he could do both of them. She and I are polar opposites on policy, but we talk on the phone about kids and our sore backs and these crazy people who bother us – she’s good people, and I think right near Nashville.

It’s an enormous wad of crap to digest, and it would be amazingly good if you’d help sort out fact from fiction on this stuff …

Paul Lemmen is a former bad guy who is now a reformed ass kicker – I knew him “back in the day”, and I’m amazed to see him not only alive, but stepping up and starting to debunk this crap Michelle is putting out about me. I told him a little bit about what happened to your and your daughter, and I bet he is going to check my story given how hot this one is, so y’all should talk. He’s in TN, too …

Small correction, I’m in Florida now … I’m intrigued and my curiosity has been piqued. Please, give me a data dump so I can tie things together.

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Got you a start with the previous post – the one with names, you can look for yourself on their court cases here in Maryland – just Google “Maryland court cases”, it’s all in Montgomery County. Seth L. Allen, Aaron Justin Walker, everything starts mid September of last year. Attaching the docs about Frey and O’Keefe again.

More on Brett – locked up for bombing, freed early, received a massive false imprisonment settlement, details are sealed. The only evidence it was him was collected under hypnosis – not a valid source of evidence. They wanted it off the books and quickly, he was a convenient target.

He faced a wrongful death suit from the family of Julia Scyphers. He was never a serious suspect in her murder, but they saw him as a payday because he was locked up, and he’d been handling some pretty large volumes of drugs. The judge, Michael T. Dugan, tried to shake him down for $10k in exchange for a favorable ruling. Kimberlin filed a complaint, and pretty soon the judge faces an eighteen year sentence for racketeering.

Got them. As you said, like trying to eat an elephant at one sitting. You know I read fast and am a quick study from the Kuwait debacle (I got screwed worse than poor Howard). Let me begin wading in the cesspool …

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Neal and I have common enemies. I’m conservative, he is a Dem. however we don’t discuss politics. If you know what happened to Neal, then my story is similar, as far as my family being threatened. The story was long and tedious. Going back 2 years now. However SwiftRead and his cronies still will not give up.

I will try and give you a link if you don’t have it already to SwiftRead’s blogspot. It changes with his mood, and he even changes OLD blogs to reflect his viewpoint of the week.

Right now he is desperately trying to find a link from Rauhauser to Brett Kimberlin. I think I spelled that right. At this juncture if they spelled Swift’s name correctly he would try and link the Pope to anyone controversial. Swift’s want of power and fame knows no bounds.

Thanks for responding. The data overload is huge so I may be several days in responding. I’m old fashioned and in unraveling spaghetti, I graph-out on paper all the interconnections in order to visualize the data and understand it. Neal knows all about that method as regards large data warehouses and this, by needs, must be considered thus.

Howard landed soft after Iraq stuff. He is really not well – one of my friends and I moved him to St. Louis, where he had a nice finished basement space with a long time friend. He has some perceptual/judgment trouble – not showering unless brow beat into it, not eating right despite diabetes, and he’d go off into a fugue state of some sort at random intervals. I really thought he didn’t have long to live, but he still seems to be puttering along – I think I saw something from him last year on LinkedIn. This has apparently been the case for many years – his fellow author friends knew and are either worn out from caring for him, or they just understand that is the way he is and there is nothing to be done about it.

I would have been able to get him paid if he had just signed the damned contract and faxed it back. He went off into some convoluted reasoning about his soul being in his signature and never did sign the contract. I got as many extensions on his mortgage as I could but his frantic demand for $30K in cash within 24 hours to save his house was the last straw for me. I answered him that if he would just sign the contract he could have 100K the next day, Swift transfer into his bank or even into his mortgage account and the remainder to him, but he still wouldn’t budge. Some form I Asperger’s Syndrome I think …

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I’m mildly AS, he is most certainly not. The house was a loss no matter what happened – he was ready for assisted living, as he had no adult children or relatives who could care for him. I had a friend who was instrumental in me cleaning up my life back when I was in my mid twenties. He had a stroke at fifty, when I was in my mid thirties, and it was damned sad. He wanted nothing more than to finish putting his 1982 shovelhead back together, but he’ll never move without a walker again, and his judgment was just way, way off after that.

Howard wore me out, too – fantastic rolodex, but he’d go off into the stratosphere on even a little job. I got two solid years of good work out of the intros he made, and I think we left him in as good a place as we could by getting him to St. Louis. For this one if you’re feeling the need I think I would hunt him up, apologize, ask what he’s been up to – prompt him to find out if he’s got the professional LinkedIn, and if not it’s like $120 for six months – that’s his favorite place to play and if he can’t roll a funded account it would be a major life upgrade if someone provided that for him.

I’ll see what I can do. $120 is a big chunk for me, that’s 10% of my disability check. Bad heart (5 stents during my federal stay) another in February and drifting from CKD stage 4 into end-stage-renal-disease. No one in their right mind would hire me. Not that I could perform the work either.

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Oh, shit. Well apology it is then. I feel ya on the kidney stuff – mine are polycystic, been causing trouble since 2000 or so, and I got Lyme in 2007, so I’m basically consultant or not working at all – I have lots of fatigue issues – will have a good month or even two, then a week straight of afternoon naps if I eat the wrong thing even one day.

Same same here. afternoon naps, fall asleep after every meal, can’t walk without a cane and even then, a hundred feet saps my strength.

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Everyone’s life is the same length – beginning, end, and the middle stretches from point A to point B. It’s how you use it that matters. You’ve done some crazy, epic shit over the years, like Catch Me If You Can in real life. Now you’re on final approach, and you’re cleaning house hardcore, like few I’ve ever seen since I went through my big change about twenty years ago. Humbles me, it does, to see someone testing the line between rigorous honesty and brutal honest, which is your last epic move

You want a final bit of service work, take the time to read through that crap I sent you, and call bullshit where you see bullshit. I swear these guys are trying to drag us into a civil war, and the whole thing is such a muddle now the real journalists are afraid to touch it. I got more to show you, gotta dig out files and stuff … you had Iraq, I got this stuff, it’s been one hairy escape after the next for the last two years, and I really hope this is the beginning of the end. I am so tired of it – had to change careers, move twice, lost two good women over this crap. Fixing to break into my serenity a bit, this thing, and I hope they find someone else to obsess over.

Perhaps my call for him to step down regarding dishonesty is having an effect?

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This whole business with him kinda creeps me out – dark skinned, Arab sounding name, gay … and conservative? I got a bad feeling like this guy is gonna get made as 100% grifter who saw the Tea Party as an easy target, and they’ll turn on him in a terrible fashion. Seems like he might have got religion while he was locked up – not the same as getting spiritual and cleaning house, eh?

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Exactly. Those that “get religion” are 99% users and abusers. I on the other hand, didn’t reconcile with the Catholic Church until earlier this year … after 18 months of talks with my local Bishop and compliance with a very large package of requirements. A quickie “conversion” to a not heirarchical, open to everybody suspect church group raises many red flags when done in custody by a convicted felon hiding their past …

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Did you do the Ignatian Disciplines stuff? I had a friend/mentor who did that when he was in his 70s … I took a very different path – converted to Buddhism about a decade ago.

Strictly a Franciscan mindset, individual salvation, individual responsibility for the poor, widowed, orphaned, all the less fortunate. To quote St. Francis, “Lord make me an instrument of your peace …”

Thus, a drive to expose TRUTH as the antidote to the lies and deception of modern political life that tears down our society and individual freedoms and liberty. Without truth, blunt, honest truth, there can be no ability to live sabctified and moral lives.

I spent a majority of yesterday graphing out the spaghetti mess! I have gone through almost an entire pack of graph paper to be able to untangle all the competing claims, situations and players. WHEW!

There are still some holes and I’m sure you have more to send me … I’m ready for another data dump.

This is going to make my longest post ever, lots of graphics showing relationships to make it easier to understand the timeline and relationships. I’ll even send you some sections prior to publication for your comments …

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Have you talked to qritiq yet? She’d be one of the best sources for Weiner events – she seems to despise all parties involved equally.

I haven’t gone to Lane Lipton’s site yet nor to Breitbart Unmasked to do any additional digging as yet. Those are on my to do list but I wanted to check in with you first to see if you had more data to dump before I started digging at affiliated sites. This will probably end up being a severe blockbuster to those twisting the narrative for political or financial (or both) gain.

Remember, I am a rank novice at this political stuff, only really getting into it this January. Much of the events occurred either prior to my release from prison on 4Jan2010 or in the immediate aftermath when I was struggling with my health and fighting Social Security for my disability while living on zero income and still being required to make restitution payments that exceeded my income.

Any and all data you can provide or hook me up privately via email with the individuals involved, the better foe my understanding and my ability to expose the lies.

FYI, I’ve been contacted by The Today Show special investigations producer Sandra Thomas about redemption and involvement in political speech. That would be a very powerful medium to be able to expose this …

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I can think of no one more redeemed + active than brett. He’s basically the shadow 96th us atty’s office – hardcore anti-corruption ninja. Hook him up?

I guess I hit a very sensitive spot. Ali has commented four times on my facebook account trying to get me to retract my post and trying to convince me how honest and kind he is. Methinks he doth protesteth too much!

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This guy needs to get honest with himself or he’s gonna come to with a bloody nose and a hangover after he falls out of the top bunk in a county jail cell.

Here ended the email exchange. I have not received any emails from Neal since. I have included my responses in order to provide context and accuracy as well as in the interest of brutal honesty. They show that I was being disingenuous with Neal in an attempt to draw him out and to reveal more of the inner working of his mind as well as to elicit connections to other players on the opposition.

More attempts at disinformation, some insight into psyops and cyberwar vis-à-vis his former co-worker and friend Mr. Berkowitz, and an airing of his personal beefs in this “dramedy” of errors. I sent Neal an email requesting an interview. Still haven’t heard back. Anytime, Neal. Door’s open. However, the window of opportunity is closing quickly. I think you know this.

This is some of the creepiest shit I have ever seen but was unable to upload live footage since my internet suddenly got disconnected.

Garbage Trucks with liquid tanks using hoses and flashlights in back alleys; hiding behind dumpsters; turning off headlights to avoid detection?

THAT’S FUCKING SUSPICIOUS!

School buses and taxis parked for hours with strobe lights using GPS 4D technology for surveillance — that is fed to four separate locations and stored on USB!

All utility companies now have sub-contractors rewiring shit without any ID, temporary tags and plates from multiple states… No way to verify identity caught on film jumping out of running vehicles and cutting wires at utility poles?

This is some of the creepiest shit I have ever seen but was unable to upload live footage since my internet suddenly got disconnected.

Garbage Trucks with liquid tanks using hoses and flashlights in back alleys; hiding behind dumpsters; turning off headlights to avoid detection?

THAT’S FUCKING SUSPICIOUS!

School buses and taxis parked for hours with strobe lights using GPS 4D technology for surveillance — that is fed to four separate locations and stored on USB!

All utility companies now have sub-contractors rewiring shit without any ID, temporary tags and plates from multiple states… No way to verify identity caught on film jumping out of running vehicles and cutting wires at utility poles?

The Department of Homeland Security launched a new partnership with the U.S. Golf Association to bring the “If You See Something, Say Something ™” public awareness campaign to the U.S. Open—an effort that will help ensure the safety and security of spectators, employees, volunteers, and athletes by identifying and reporting suspicious activity.

The “If You See Something, Say Something ™” campaign—originally implemented by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and now licensed to DHS for a nationwide campaign—is a simple and effective program to engage the public and key frontline employees to identify and report indicators of terrorism and crime to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities.

In preparation for the U.S. Open this weekend at Congressional Golf Course in Bethesda, MD, the Department conducted briefings for volunteers and security personnel on suspicious activity reporting. Also, posters are up in employee and volunteer areas directing them where to report suspicious activity.

DHS has recently launched “If You See Something, Say Something™” partnerships with organizations such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Football League (NFL), Indianapolis 500 as well as in several states including Colorado, Minnesota and New Jersey, more than 9,000 federal buildings nationwide, Walmart, Mall of America, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, Amtrak, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the general aviation industry, and state and local fusion centers across the country.

In the coming months, DHS will continue to expand the “If You See Something, Say Something ™” campaign nationally to help America’s business, communities and citizens remain vigilant and play an active role in keeping the country safe. More information about the campaign is available on DHS.gov.

You’re about to listen to one of the most bone-chilling pieces of audio you will ever hear. At least, it was to me when I first heard it.

It’s a phone call that could have gotten me killed.

In this post you will hear that audio clip. You will also read about a months-long campaign of harassment carried out by at least three individuals: Ron Brynaert, Neal Rauhauser, and Brett Kimberlin — much of it directed at critics of Brett Kimberlin. This harassment includes repeated references to critics’ family members, workplace complaints, publication of personal information such as home addresses and pictures of residences, bogus allegations of criminal activity, whisper campaigns, frivolous legal actions, and frivolous State Bar complaints.

And finally, you will hear a comparison of one of those men’s voices to that of the man who made the call that sent police to my home. And you’ll read a declaration from a forensic audio expert comparing those two voices.

BREITBART TOLD THE STORY JUST BEFORE HE DIED

In the last radio interview Andrew Breitbart ever gave, on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, Breitbart talked about a new ruthless tactic used by thugs against political opponents:

[O]ne of the things they’ve done to people who have worked with me in the past, including an L.A. prosecutor, is to “SWAT.” That means that they’re spoofing phones, pretending to be somebody else’s phone, calling 911, and saying “I killed somebody” and then the person’s home is met with the guns drawn, the SWAT and the helicopters, in a horrifying act. It’s happened twice: once in New Jersey, once in Los Angeles, with an L.A. County . . . prosecutor who [is] associated with me.”

I am that L.A. County prosecutor. And in this post, you’ll hear the hoax call that sent police to my house, pointing loaded guns at me.

THE NIGHT I COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED BECAUSE OF MY BLOGGING

At 12:35 a.m. on July 1, 2011, sheriff’s deputies pounded on my front door and rang my doorbell. They shouted for me to open the door and come out with my hands up.

When I opened the door, deputies pointed guns at me and ordered me to put my hands in the air. I had a cell phone in my hand. Fortunately, they did not mistake it for a gun.

They ordered me to turn around and put my hands behind my back. They handcuffed me. They shouted questions at me: IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE HOUSE? and WHERE ARE THEY? and ARE THEY ALIVE?

I told them: Yes, my wife and my children are in the house. They’re upstairs in their bedrooms, sleeping. Of course they’re alive.

Deputies led me down the street to a patrol car parked about 2-3 houses away. At least one neighbor was watching out of her window as I was placed, handcuffed, in the back of the patrol car. I saw numerous patrol cars on my quiet street. There was a police helicopter flying overhead, shining a spotlight down on us as I walked towards the patrol car. Several neighbors later told us the helicopter woke them up. I saw a fire engine and an ambulance. A neighbor later told me they had a HazMat vehicle out on the street as well.

Meanwhile, police rushed into my home. They woke up my wife, led her downstairs and to the front porch, frisked her, and asked her where the children were. Then police ordered her to stand on the front porch with her hands against the wall while they entered my children’s bedrooms to make sure they were alive.

The call that sent deputies to my home was a hoax. Someone had pretended to be me. They called the police to say I had shot my wife. The sheriff’s deputies who arrived at my front door believed they were about to confront an armed man who had just shot his wife. I don’t blame the police for any of their actions. But I blame the person who made the call.

Because I could have been killed.

The weirdest part of the whole thing was that I halfway expected this might happen. Because I was not the first one it had happened to.

I think it’s about time you heard the call that sent police to my home.

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“SWATTING” CAN KILL PEOPLE

What you just heard and read is no joke. It actually happened. The phenomenon is called “SWATting,” because it can bring a SWAT team to your front door. SWATting is a particularly dangerous hoax in which a caller, generally a computer hacker, calls a police department to report a shooting at the home of his enemy. The caller will place this call to the police department’s business line, using Skype or a similar service, and hiding behind Internet proxies to make the call impossible to trace. Anxious police, believing they are responding to the home of an armed and dangerous man, show up at the front door pointing guns and screaming orders.

That is exactly what happened to me. It is a very dangerous hoax that could get the target killed.

Above: an anonymous Kimberlin supporter mocks my swatting in August 2011, before it was publicly known. The reference is to an article about a 2008 swatting case in Dallas.

Although I am an L.A. County Deputy D.A., it is certain that I was “swatted” because of my blog and not because of my job. As Andrew Breitbart noted, this happened to two people within the course of a single week: a man in New Jersey and myself. Both of us had had contact with Andrew Breitbart. Both of us were writing about the same story. And both of us received email threats days before we were swatted. The threat to me said, in part: “Please think about your family. This story is not worth it. I can assure you that.”

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

So who perpetrated this crime on me and my family?

I reported the crime to the FBI on July 1, 2011. (Obviously, the Sheriff’s Department was already aware of it, since they had come to my house.) Unfortunately, law enforcement has not solved the case. Worse, they have failed to follow up on a number of leads I have given them.

But there is circumstantial evidence suggesting who may be responsible. I met personally with the nationwide experts on swatting in December 2011: the FBI office in Dallas, Texas. They told me that swatting is an extreme form of harassment — and that swatters typically combine swatting with other forms of harassment, including: complaining to the victim’s workplace, defaming the victim online, “Googlebombing” the victim, publishing the victim’s address online, filing phony reports of criminal activity by the victim, and so forth.

All of these things have happened to me and other critics of Brett Kimberlin since July 2011. The harassment has been relentless and has occurred almost every day. It would literally take a book to catalogue it all. What you read in this post, incredibly, is only part of it.

Why target me? Well, I first wrote about Brett Kimberlin in October 2010, after getting a call from Andrew Breitbart. Andrew told me that his site was going to publish a post about a domestic terrorist named Brett Kimberlin. The story sounded interesting, and I published a post about Kimberlin shortly after the Breitbart post (penned by Mandy Nagy aka Liberty Chick) was published.

It’s fair to say I have been one of Brett Kimberlin’s least favorite people in the world for a good long time now.

THE RELENTLESS AND VICIOUS HARASSMENT OF CRITICS OF BRETT KIMBERLIN, BY KIMBERLIN AND HIS SUPPORTERS

Beginning about the time I was swatted in July 2011, the harassment I had already experienced from Kimberlin was stepped up several notches — and other Kimberlin critics were also targeted. Several anonymous accounts identifying themselves as supporters of Kimberlin’s have participated in the harassment. These anonymous harassers go by names like @OccupyRebellion, @BreitbartUnmask, Gaped Crusader, and “Just Call Me Lefty.”

But much of the harassment Kimberlin critics have experienced has occurred at the hands of three named individuals: Ron Brynaert, Neal Rauhauser, and Brett Kimberlin.

Meet Ron Brynaert

Ron Brynaert is a so-called “journalist” who last August threatened me and my wife in the most despicable manner possible:

References to my wife come completely out of left field. She is a Democrat and cancels out my vote in every election. The only reason anyone would bring her up online is to intimidate and harass my family.

Brynaert explicitly connected his desire to do violence to me to his defense of Brett Kimberlin. The night he threatened me and my wife, Brynaert defended Kimberlin in a long series of tweets pointing out alleged holes in the case against Kimberlin. Brynaert said I was slandering Kimberlin:

One of Brynaert’s arguments was that certain of the witnesses against Kimberlin had been hypnotized. Apparently, it greatly upset Brynaert that I wasn’t responding to this argument, and he threatened violence as a result:

Ron Brynaert has been a guest blogger at The Brad Blog, run by Brad Friedman, a business partner of Brett Kimberlin’s. Brynaert has described himself as a friend of Friedman’s. Brynaert was for years the editor of a Raw Story, a publication that has teamed up with the Brad Blog to put out Brad Friedman’s radio show:

Neal Rauhauser is a creepy far-left activist. There is evidence that, using the handle “Iowa Boy,” Rauhauser has engaged in violent rhetoric, including calling for the public hanging of Republicans and the shooting of Dick Cheney. Rauhauser speaks regularly of the hacking group Anonymous and frequently suggests that his enemies are opening themselves up to Internet harassment.

Three days after I was swatted, Rauhauser wrote a post titled “Patterico’s Penalization” that made bizarre accusations about me, and accused me of working with a “cyberstalker” named Seth Allen — a blogger who had criticized Brett Kimberlin so tenaciously that Kimberlin (frivolously) sued Allen for defamation. In that post, Rauhauser publicized a State Bar complaint that Kimberlin had filed against me, and asked readers to get a picture of my wife. Rauhauser also suggested that a private detective stake out Seth Allen’s apartment:

Here is Rauhauser further publicizing Brett Kimberlin’s State Bar complaint against me, and stating his belief that if enough such complaints accumulate, I will be fired:

And here is Rauhauser talking about how he wants to see me fired, prosecuted, and bankrupted — all for purely political reasons:

Kimberlin has described Rauhauser as an “associate” of his. Rauhauser has written of working with Kimberlin and meeting with him personally. They have appeared in court together. Rauhauser has spoken of working with Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution organization on Occupy events. In 2011, Rauhauser talked of a new job that he had, and of moving to Maryland — the state that is home to Brett Kimberlin and Velvet Revolution.

Above: as “WeOccupyAmerica, Rauhauser says he is closely connected with Brynaert, to his “chagrin.”

On many occasions, Ron Brynaert, Neal Rauhauser, Brett Kimberlin, and anonymous Kimberlin supporters have harassed me and other Kimberlin critics in a similar manner — using tactics that the FBI told me are characteristic of swatters:

Harassment of wives and family members – As noted above, Rauhauser asked readers for pictures of my wife. He and Brynaert have spoken of investigating my wife’s work as a Deputy District Attorney. Rauhauser and @OccupyRebellion have insinuated that my wife played a role in impersonating fake teens in the Anthony Weiner scandal. Kimberlin supporters @OccupyRebellion and @BreitbartUnmask have spoken of obtaining a picture of my wife. The Gaped Crusader constantly brought up my wife.

The Gaped Crusader wrote like Neal Rauhauser, talked about the same topics as Neal Rauhauser, and once left a comment on my site with the same IP address that Neal Rauhauser used to leave a comment on another site.

Brynaert has said my wife and I should be fired, and (as noted) has talked about taking a “shit” on my wife.

The obsession with family members recently extended to Stacy McCain, with Kimberlin apparently having contacting Stacy’s wife’s employer, causing McCain to flee his house. Kimberlin supporter @BreitbartUnmask has mentioned the names of Stacy’s children online. @BreitbartUnmask has publicly outed a commenter of mine, discussed that commenter’s divorce records, and named his father.

Publication of home addresses –OccupyforAccountability.org, a site related to Kimberlin, published my home address, as well as a Google street view and Google aerial view of my home. The “Gaped Crusader” republished that address.

Donations at OccupyforAccountability.org go to Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution. The same post published what the author stated was Andrew Breitbart’s home address. Andrew later told me it was actually a home owned by Andrew’s parents and rented out to others. Kimberlin later sent interrogatories to me at the address listed on OccupyforAccountability.org — and sent interrogatories to Andrew at the address the site had listed for Andrew. Andrew’s interrogatories eventually made their way to him, and he told me about it and gave me a copy of them.

Kimberlin unnecessarily put Aaron Walker’s home address in court documents. Kimberlin had a habit of putting information into court documents — information that is later disseminated by Rauhauser and Brynaert.

Workplace complaints – Brynaert and Kimberlin have both filed complaints against me with my office. (Rauhauser and Brynaert have spoken of these complaints publicly.)

When Brynaert contacted my office, he initially called the very same person Kimberlin had complained to — even though that person was no longer my boss. If Brynaert had simply called asking for my boss, the office would probably not have routed Brynaert to the same person Kimberlin had complained to. But if Brynaert asked for that same person by name, they would route the call to that person.

Kimberlin also spoke to at least two secretaries in my office, calling me a stalker, a racist, a homophobe, and saying he was going to have to get a restraining order against me. I had to explain to the secretaries that the man who called them had been convicted of setting off several bombs and had been sentenced to 50 years in federal prison — but was now free and harassing me.

Rauhauser has encouraged people to file complaints against me, as has anonymous Kimberlin supporter @BreitbartUnmask. The “Gaped Crusader” spoke of sending packets of defamatory material about me to candidates running in the election for District Attorney, as well as to defense attorneys on my cases. As noted, Brynaert has stated that my wife and I should be fired. Anonymous Kimberlin supporter @OccupyRebellion constantly talks about how I will be fired and disbarred.

Brynaert wrote to Andrew Breitbart defaming his employee Mandy Nagy (aka Liberty Chick), who wrote that comprehensive piece about Kimberlin in October 2010 I mentioned earlier.

Kimberlin put Aaron Walker’s home and work address into court documents. The inclusion of the work address contributed to Aaron’s being fired, due to the employer’s fear that a convicted bomber might appear at their workplace.

Kimberlin contacted Stacy McCain’s wife’s workplace.

Brynaert contacted a man named Ken Ashford in an attempt to learn Aaron Walker’s real name, and threatened to email every member of Ashford’s firm claiming Ashford had harassed him. Brynaert later contacted the Human Resources Department at Ashford’s firm to complain about him.

Abuse of court process – Kimberlin has filed numerous frivolous court actions against Aaron Walker and Seth Allen. The details of the court appearances are frequently reported — with a pro-Kimberlin spin — by Rauhauser and Brynaert. In a blatant abuse of the court’s process, Kimberlin served invalid interrogatories in the Seth Allen lawsuit on me, Aaron Walker, Mandy Nagy, and Andrew Breitbart. Rauhauser and @OccupyRebellion publicly referred to those interrogatories and asked when we were going to answer them.

When police gave Kimberlin a picture of Allen from his driver’s license, that picture made its way into the hands of Rauhauser and Brynaert, who published it online.

Kimberlin threatened to sue me right after I first published my first blog post about him. He told Walker’s pro bono attorney that he is planning a RICO lawsuit against me, Nagy, Walker, and Seth Allen.

Nadia Naffe’s civil claim against me — Nadia Naffe has now filed a civil claim against me and my boss Steve Cooley — and the lawyer is Jay Leiderman, an online buddy of Neal Rauhauser’s who put out a request on a defense attorney mailing list to investigate whether any defense attorneys don’t like me. Although I have not seen the legal claim myself, excerpts of Naffe’s legal claim have appeared at the web site of self-described Kimberlin supporter and Rauhauser friend BreitbartUnmasked.com. Before the claim was filed, Rauhauser and @BreitbartUnmasked encouraged Naffe to file the sorts of claims that appear in the civil claim.

Naffe has publicly said that she plans to use her lawsuit against me to ask questions in discovery about the value of my house — a topic in which Rauhauser and @OccupyRebellion have expressed interest in the past. According to a friend of mine, Naffe has also said that she plans to ask me and my wife under oath the true identity of conservative blogger Ace of Spades. Which is not something she ought to care about, since Ace had never said a word about her (although he has now).

You know who cares about Ace’s identity? Brett Kimberlin supporter @BreitbartUnmask. He has written entire posts about Ace’s identity. And before I was swatted, someone threatened me by email. That person threatened one other person the same night: Ace of Spades.

Additionally, Brett Kimberlin has used a subpoena in the Seth Allen lawsuit to subpoena James O’Keefe’s stolen emails from Naffe — despite the fact that there has been a final judgment in that lawsuit.

Outing – Ace has good reason to be concerned, as this group has a history of outing anonymous critics. Aaron Walker’s identity was outed by Brett Kimberlin after he received an “anonymous tip.” Seth Allen’s identity was also outed by Kimberlin.

In addition to furiously harassing Ken Ashford for Aaron Walker’s true name, Ron Brynaert also wrote Yale alumni affairs officials asking for information about Aaron. Within a single day of Brynaert’s failed campaign to learn Aaron’s true name and location, Brett Kimberlin wrote Aaron demanding that Aaron disclose his true name and location.

Whisper campaigns – Brynaert and Kimberlin have both contacted people that they identified as online “enemies” of mine to complain of alleged harassment at my hands. Brynaert has recently taken to contacting other major bloggers to defame me, Aaron Walker, and Mandy Nagy. I have been forwarded emails by Brynaert from several notable bloggers.

Frivolous claims of criminal wrongdoing – I am told Kimberlin filed frivolous claims of stalking against me with an anti-stalking unit in my office. Rauhauser has encouraged people to report me to that same unit. Interestingly enough, the anonymous person who threatened me by email before I was swatted mentioned the very same unit.

Brynaert has also constantly claimed that critics of Kimberlin have stalked him and Kimberlin. @OccupyRebellion has made the same claim.

Rauhauser compiled a large packet of defamatory material accusing me, Walker, Nagy, and others of participating in criminal activity, and said he had sent it to state police in New Jersey and the FBI in Baltimore. He made the entire packet available as a torrent.

Writing as Stranded Wind at Daily Kos (where he has since been banned), Rauhauser insinuated that I had obtained forged documentation during the course of my employment to support claims by shadowy Internet entity John Reid. @OccupyRebellion has made the same insinuations.

Rauhauser and anonymous Kimberlin supporters claimed that I criminally intimidated a witness by criticizing Nadia Naffe on my blog — an allegation that apparently has surfaced in her civil claim against me and my boss Steve Cooley.

Kimberlin claimed Walker assaulted him in a courthouse and made several claims regarding the incident that have been disproven by a video. Kimberlin’s claims were repeated by Brynaert, @OccupyRebellion, and @BreitbartUnmask. Rauhauser and @OccupyRebellion falsely alleged that Walker had been arrested for this crime, and repeatedly asserted that he had beaten Kimberlin.

Brynaert has recently accused Aaron Walker of “extortion” for sending Brynaert a settlement demand letter in Walker’s lawsuit against Brynaert. Brynaert accused me and Mandy Nagy of being part of the “conspiracy” to “extort” Brynaert. In fact, just yesterday, Brynaert used the threat of going to the NYPD as a way to deter me from publishing this post, saying that he was going to the police as soon as I published:

I’m waiting until a certain Deputy District Attorney – who has been enabling my blackmailer – to publish his lies, then I’m going to NYPD.

Brynaert has accused me of criminal harassment. @OccupyRebellion has consistently accused me, Walker, and Nagy of being criminals.

Brynaert, Rauhauser, and @OccupyRebellion have insinuated or stated that I was not swatted, that I filed a false police report concerning that swatting, and that in fact I am the person who committed the swatting of the man in New Jersey.

Frivolous State Bar complaints or threats to file State Bar complaints – Kimberlin filed a frivolous State Bar complaint against me, and has now filed a State Bar complaint against Aaron Walker. Kimberlin insinuated he might file a State Bar complaint against Walker’s pro bono lawyer. Brynaert threatened to file a State Bar complaint against Aaron Walker and Ken Ashford (the man who refused to tell Brynaert the true name of Aaron Walker).

General harassment – The “Gaped Crusader,” published a picture of a naked man with his penis exposed, and claimed that it was Deputy District Attorney John Patrick Frey. Here are some Gaped Crusader screenshots:

The image above was not fuzzed out on the Gaped Crusader blog.

Kimberlin supporter @BreitbartUnmasked harassed Aaron on Twitter, and gave accurate details about Aaron’s driving record that do not appear to be publicly available.

After a court appearance in which Aaron tried to get a peace order against Rauhauser, Rauhauser wrote an email to me and other friends of his which said, among other things: “Given Walker’s state of mind I would say his wife might find him hanging in the garage tonight when she gets home from work.”

Rauhauser called me at my office and left a message on my work voice mail, claiming that Aaron appeared to be suffering a psychological breakdown and needed help.

Rauhauser and anonymous Kimberlin supporters have consistently accused Aaron of being bigoted against Muslims. Rauhauser wrote Aaron mocking emails talking about how Muslims were likely to try to kill him because of his “Everyone Draw Mohammed” site. Kimberlin wrote Aaron’s local police purporting to be concerned that, because Kimberlin had been “forced” (he claimed) to file a court document containing all Aaron’s personal information, that Muslims would get hold of that document and put Aaron in danger. Even after Aaron lost his job, someone either arranged for, or pretended to be, a Muslim group that threatened to take protest and diplomatic actions against Aaron’s workplace until they heard Aaron had been fired.

Kimberlin defenders took court audio of Allen and put it on YouTube, showing a graphic of Allen’s face from his driver’s license picture.

Mandy Nagy endured months of harassment from Rauhauser, @Occupy Rebellion, and others. @OccupyRebellion mocked Nagy’s illnesses and personal tragedies. She told Nagy that she hoped Nagy died of cancer. She claimed that Nagy (a rape victim) had never been raped. She repeatedly called Nagy a “cunt.” And she told Nagy that Nagy had put her own family’s life in danger.

Nagy says she has been told by friends that people have been calling them asking questions about her, and that she has seen people seemingly staking out her residence in various vehicles.

Meanwhile, @OccupyRebellion and Rauhauser have incessantly accused Nagy of “baiting” Anonymous. This claim itself functions to stir up Anonymous accounts, in an apparent effort to get Anonymous to hack Nagy.

Heard enough about this harassment? Then let’s move on to the voice on my swatting call.

THE VOICE

When I obtained the recording of my swatting, in July 2011, I thought I recognized the voice.

To me, it sounded like Brynaert. Specifically, it sounded like someone trying to disguise his voice at the beginning of the call, by talking in a monotone. Then, at the end of the call, when the dispatcher challenged the caller, the voice seemed to lose its disguised quality . . . and it sounded like Brynaert to me.

Here’s the thing: Brynaert was talking to me on the phone when the police came to my house. That is something that the FBI in Dallas also told me fits the M.O. of a swatter.

Before that phone call, Ron Brynaert had told me that he had important information for me about the Anthony Weiner case. And that is how I ended up talking to him on the phone on the night of June 30, 2011, leading into the early morning hours of July 1.

And that is how it happened that he was on the phone with me when the police showed up to my door.

Let’s listen to Brynaert’s voice compared to that of the caller:

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I pushed and pushed for law enforcement to do a forensic comparison of Brynaert’s voice to that of the swatter. I found an interview of Brynaert online, so there was a ready sample for comparison. But they wouldn’t do it. (I was constantly frustrated by the failure of law enforcement to follow up on what seemed like obvious leads. More about that at a future date.)

I first approached Kent in August 2011, but at the time I was still trying to convince law enforcement to do the comparison themselves. By January 2012 I had given up on law enforcement. I sent Kent my swatting call; the swatting call from New Jersey; a call to BlogTalkRadio that sounded like the swatter; and the Ron Brynaert interview.

In this case the following files were presented for evaluation: Tag names for these four recordings are shown in BOLD. The[y] represent calls from two Swat Hoax cases, one involving Patrick Frey and one involving Mike Stack [the man from New Jersey — ed.].

Ron Brynaert Interview.mp3 – BRYNAERT KNOWN – an internet radio interview. This caller is suspected of being the Swat caller re: Frey.

Lee Call-in Radio Show – LEE KNOWN (Lee is interviewer’s name, not caller.) This caller is suspected of being the Swat caller re: Stack.

. . . .

CONCLUSION: Considering all of the evidence presented, it is my expert forensic examiner opinion that it is probable that all voice samples come from the same person.

In other words, it is the opinion of an expert forensic examiner that Ron Brynaert’s voice is probably the voice of the man on my swatting call. A call that could have gotten me killed.

PARTING THOUGHTS

What you have just read is a summary. I have lived this daily — literally daily — for almost a year. There are pieces of evidence I didn’t have room to include. There is so much evidence of harassment it would take you weeks to read about it all.

What’s more, I know that this post is going to result in more harassment. I will almost certainly be sued, despite my careful efforts to stick to the facts. There will likely be more complaints to my workplace.

And I have a feeling they’ll find creative new ways to try to rip my life apart.

As an aside, I have listened to Brett Kimberlin in court audio, saying he meets with Congressmen on a regular basis. I want to make sure these Congressmen know what he’s doing.

I have appreciated the support I have felt in recent days, with people like Michelle Malkin, Instapundit, Stacy McCain, Ace, and many others stepping up and being willing to take on this topic.

It is my hope that the support of the blogosphere will not melt away after today. Because the harassment will almost certainly live on.

It’s an important battle to take on. And I want to stress that this should not be a partisan issue. I believe Brett Kimberlin uses lefty politics as a tool — but he doesn’t believe any of it in his heart. He is looking for a buck. I have been heartened to see left-leaning people of all stripes stand up to this guy in the past, from Mark Singer, the author of Citizen K; to Ken Ashford, who refused to give up Aaron Walker’s identity; to the left-leaning lawyer who represented Aaron pro bono.

It is my hope that left-leaning blogs will recognize that this is not a partisan issue. It is a free speech issue.

Remember how I said one of my commenters was outed? And this crew started talking about his parents? And his divorce records? For being a commenter of mine?

What happened to me could literally happen to anyone. It could happen to you.

If you take nothing else from this post, remember that. It could happen to you.

As always, opinions on this site are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. I speak in my personal capacity and not my official capacity, and do not intend to speak on behalf of my office in any way.

UPDATE: I received this today from Roxanne Cooper:

Raw Story was founded by John Byrne in 2004, and has only ever been owned by John Byrne (and minority-stake owner Mike Rogers, who joined in 2009). Roxanne Cooper became the publisher in October 2010, shortly before Ron Brynaert ended his tenure at the publication. Since March 2011, the editorial direction has been under the management of Megan Carpentier, who has complete editorial discretion separate from management.

Brett Kimberlin and Velvet Revolution are not and never have been involved in the ownership, management or editorial direction of Raw Story. Neither Carpentier nor Cooper had ever heard of Kimberlin or Velvet Revolution prior to the start of the events described by Aaron Worthing, Mandy Nagy and Patrick Frey.